Hi,
A while back, when Frank released gpc-20030507, he noted that there were a few changes that we wouldn't like, especially regarding external function references.
Well ok, the first release forced me to add 'name' to all my external Pascal routines since the default was now all lowercase (even though Pascal routines are defined with an initial uppercase letter - a strange mismatch it seems). Although a nuisance, I accepted this was just a case of getting over the bit I wouldn't like. Of course, 'name' isn't in gpc-2.1, so everyone else running our software had to upgrade to 20030507 too. Having now done the upgrade to 20030830, I started getting errors due to duplicated unit declarations in the INTERFACE and IMPLEMENTATION blocks (for what reason?). Anyway, I deleted the duplication, only to discover that 20030507 required the duplication, so again, all of our machines had to be upgraded to 20030830.
Whilst I'm getting very good at rebuilding gpc, I would hope future gpc releases will focus on bug-fixes and ensuring backward compiler compatibility, thus removing the need to match our software to a precise compiler version.
Sorry for the moan, we're all always busy - keep up the good work (especially if you can fix the module global string declaration bug!!).
Regards
David Wood QinetiQ Farnborough
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